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A Purdue lab says it built its viral forest drone from scratch. Its telemetry names SUPER and FAST-LIO, open-source code from the University of Hong Kong.
The Fourth Law says jamming loses its point once a drone flies and strikes on its own, and Ukraine finds a new Russian autonomous drone every few weeks.
Anthropic says a freelance Russian team used Claude Code to build kamikaze drone swarm software that picks targets, including people, with no human veto.
A Russian Molniya drone with an unencrypted Nvidia Jetson Orin chose its own target and killed three civilians at a Zaporizhzhia gas station on July 6.
This article has been updated on Feb. 19 2026 In the mountain town of Aspen, where forests press close against homes and ski lodges, wildfire season no longer waits politely for summer. It lingers year round, prowling the tree lines. Now, the Aspen Fire Department is answering with a new kind of strike force that…
The Austin American-Statesman just published an in-depth look at Skyways Air Transportation, the Austin-based startup that wants to build the world’s largest fleet of fully autonomous drones. What caught my attention isn’t the ambition. It’s the math. The company says its V2 drone can deliver cargo between Navy ships for about $1,000 per flight hour.…
The Pentagon’s Joint Interagency Task Force 401 has taken an early step toward creating an online marketplace for counter drone technology with its first acquisition under the Replicator 2 effort, as Air and Space Forces reports. The task force, which was established last fall, has purchased two DroneHunter F700 counter drone systems. The Pentagon says…
Autonomous drones are no longer a future promise for law enforcement. In Grand Chute, Wisconsin, police are already letting software and sensors arrive before squad cars. Since April 2025, the Grand Chute Police Department has been running a pilot drone as a first responder program, collecting real world data on how autonomous aircraft can support…
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